The 1991 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

1,652,000 kW capacity; 6,000 million kWh produced, 12,080 kWh per capita (1989)

      _#_Industries: petroleum processing and refining, aluminum smelting, offshore banking, ship repairing

      _#_Agriculture: including fishing, accounts for less than 2% of GDP; not self-sufficient in food production; heavily subsidized sector produces fruit, vegetables, poultry, dairy products, shrimp, and fish; fish catch 9,000 metric tons in 1987

      _#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70–79), $24 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970–88), $35 million; OPEC bilateral aid (1979–89), $9.8 billion

      _#_Currency: Bahraini dinar (plural—dinars); 1 Bahraini dinar (BD) = 1,000 fils

      _#_Exchange rates: Bahraini dinars (BD) per US$1—0.3760 (fixed rate)

      _#_Fiscal year: calendar year

      _*Communications #_Highways: 200 km bituminous surfaced, including 25 km bridge-causeway to Saudi Arabia opened in November 1986; NA km natural surface tracks

      _#_Ports: Mina Salman, Manama, Sitrah

      _#_Merchant marine: 4 cargo and 2 container (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 114,733 GRT/155,065 DWT

      _#_Pipelines: crude oil, 56 km; refined products, 16 km; natural gas, 32 km

      _#_Civil air: 24 major transport aircraft

      _#_Airports: 3 total, 3 usable; 2 with permanent-surface runways; 2 with runways over 3,659 m; 1 with runways 1,220–2,439 m

      _#_Telecommunications: excellent international telecommunications; adequate domestic services; 98,000 telephones; stations—2 AM, 1 FM, 2 TV; satellite earth stations—1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT, 1 Indian Ocean INTELSAT, 1 ARABSAT; tropospheric scatter and microwave to Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia; submarine cable to Qatar and UAE

      _*Defense Forces #_Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, Air Defense, Police Force

      _#_Manpower availability: males 15–49, 187,606; 104,285 fit for military service

      _#Defense expenditures: $194 million, 6% of GDP (1990) % @Baker Island (territory of the US) *Geography #_Total area: 1.4 km2; land area: 1.4 km2

      _#_Comparative area: about 2.3 times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC

      _#_Land boundaries: none

      _#_Coastline: 4.8 km

      _#_Maritime claims:

      Contiguous zone: 12 nm;

      Continental shelf: 200 m (depth);

      Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;

      Territorial sea: 12 nm

      _#_Climate: equatorial; scant rainfall, constant wind, burning sun

      _#_Terrain: low, nearly level coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef

      _#_Natural resources: guano (deposits worked until 1891)

      _#_Land use: arable land 0%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and pastures 0%; forest and woodland 0%; other 100%

      _#_Environment: treeless, sparse and scattered vegetation consisting of grasses, prostrate vines, and low growing shrubs; lacks fresh water; primarily a nesting, roosting, and foraging habitat for seabirds, shorebirds, and marine wildlife

      _#_Note: remote location 2,575 km southwest of Honolulu in the North Pacific Ocean, just north of the Equator, about halfway between Hawaii and Australia

      _*People #_Population: uninhabited

      _#_Note: American civilians evacuated in 1942 after Japanese air and naval attacks during World War II; occupied by US military during World War II, but abandoned after the war; public entry is by special-use permit only and generally restricted to scientists and educators; a cemetery and cemetery ruins located near the middle of the west coast

      _*Government #_Long-form name: none

      _#_Type: unincorporated territory of the US administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the US Department of the Interior as part of the National Wildlife Refuge system

      _*Economy #_Overview: no economic activity

      _*Communications #_Ports: none; offshore anchorage only, one boat landing area along the middle of the west coast

      _#_Airports: 1 abandoned World War II runway of 1,665 m

      _#_Note: there is a day beacon near the middle of the west coast

      _*Defense Forces #Note: defense is the responsibility of the US; visited annually by the US Coast Guard % @Bangladesh *Geography #_Total area: 144,000 km2; land area: 133,910 km2

      _#_Comparative area: slightly smaller than Wisconsin

      _#_Land boundaries: 4,246 km total; Burma 193 km, India 4,053 km

      _#_Coastline: 580 km

      _#_Maritime claims:

      Contiguous zone: 18 nm;

      Continental shelf: up to outer limits of continental margin;

      Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;

      Territorial sea: 12 nm

      _#_Disputes: a portion of the boundary with India is in dispute; water sharing problems with upstream riparian India over the Ganges

      _#_Climate: tropical; cool, dry winter (October to March); hot, humid summer (March to June); cool, rainy monsoon (June to October)

      _#_Terrain: mostly flat alluvial plain; hilly in southeast

      _#_Natural resources: natural gas, uranium, arable land, timber

      _#_Land use: arable land 67%; permanent crops 2%; meadows and pastures 4%; forest and woodland 16%; other 11%; includes irrigated 14%

      _#_Environment: vulnerable to droughts; much of country routinely flooded during summer monsoon season; overpopulation; deforestation

      _#_Note: almost completely surrounded by India

      _*People #_Population: 116,601,424 (July 1991), growth rate 2.3% (1991)

      _#_Birth rate: 36 births/1,000 population (1991)

      _#_Death rate: 13 deaths/1,000 population (1991)

      _#_Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1991)

      _#_Infant mortality rate: 118 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)

      _#_Life expectancy at birth: 54 years male, 52 years female (1991)

      _#_Total fertility rate: 4.7 children born/woman (1991)

      _#_Nationality: noun—Bangladeshi(s); adjective—Bangladesh

      _#_Ethnic divisions: Bengali 98%, Biharis 250,000, and tribals less than 1 million

      _#_Religion: Muslim 83%, Hindu 16%, Buddhist, Christian, and other less than 1%

      _#_Language: Bangla (official), English widely used

      _#_Literacy: 35% (male 47%, female 22%) age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)

      _#_Labor force: 35,100,000; agriculture 74%, services 15%, industry and commerce 11% (FY86); extensive export of labor to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Oman (1991)

      _#_Organized labor: 3% of labor force belongs to 2,614 registered unions (1986 est.)

      _*Government #_Long-form name: People's Republic of Bangladesh

      _#_Type: republic

      _#_Capital: Dhaka

      _#_Administrative divisions: 64 districts (zillagulo,

       singular—zilla); Bagerhat, Bandarban, Barguna, Barisal,

       Bhola, Bogra, Brahmanbaria, Chandpur, Chapai Nawabganj,

       Chattagram, Chuadanga,